2022-present Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Seoul National University

2020-2022 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Seoul National University

2017-2020 Assistant Professor of Anthropology and East Asian Studies, University of Mississippi

2018 Ph.D. Anthropology, Columbia University

2013 M.Phil. Anthropology. Columbia University

2006 M.A. Sociology, Seoul National University

2004 B.A. Sociology, Seoul National University

Culture and Economy, Economic Anthropology, Anthropology of Money and Finance, Anthropology of Contingency and Uncertainty

​Culture of Neoliberalism, Value and Valuation, Post-Neoliberalism and the Social, Financialization and Political Subjectivization, Politics of (Post-)Development in South Korea and East Asia

2022 “Magical capitalism, gambler subjects: South Korea’s bitcoin investment frenzy.” Cultural Studies 36(1).

2021 “Building the Post-Traumatic Nation: Mourning and Melancholia in Korean Films about the Gwangju Massacre.” Korea Journal 61(1).

2020 “The moral economy of face: marketized gift and depoliticized solidarity in South Korea’s fair trade.” Journal of Cultural Economy 13(5).

2020 “The (anti-)social gift? Mauss’s paradox and the triad of the gift.” European Journal of Social Theory 23(4).

Journal Articles (in Korean)

2022 “금융의 프랑스 혁명? 게임스탑 사태와 투자자 포퓰리즘의 등장.” <문화연구> 10(1). [“The French Revolution of Finance? GameStop saga and the rise of investor populism.” Korean Journal of Cultural Studies 10(1)].

2022 “사회적인 것을 계산하기: 사회적 가치 지표(SVI) 개발의 하부정치.” <한국문화인류학> 55(1). [“Calculating the Social: The Infrapolitics of Social Value Index (SVI).” Korean Cultural Anthropology 55(1)].

2020 “마을 기업가처럼 보기: 도시개발의 공동체적 전환과 공동체의 자본화.” <한국문화인류학> 53(1). [“Seeing like a community entrepreneur: the capitalization of ‘community’ in Seoul’s community building project (maŭl mandŭlgi)” Korean Cultural Anthropology 53(1)].

2019 “불가능한 증여, 기생의 사회: 자크 데리다와 미셸 세르의 상호성 비판.” <비교문화연구> 25(2). [“Impossible Gifts, parasitic networks: Jacques Derrida’s and Michel Serres’s critiques of the gift.” Cross-Cultural Studies 25(2)].

2018 (with Mun Young Cho) “한국 ‘사회혁신’의 지형도: 새로운 통치합리성과 거버넌스 공간의 등장.” <경제와 사회> 27(4). [“Mapping ‘social innovation’: convergence in governance and the rise of a new governing rationality in South Korea.” Economy and Society 27(4)].

2018 “도박자의 인류학을 위한 연구노트.” <문학과 사회> 31(2). [“‘Gambler’ as a financial subjectivity: notes towards an investigation.” Literature and Society 31(2)].

2017 (with Mun Young Cho) “‘사회’의 위기와 ‘사회적인 것’의 범람: 한국과 중국의 ‘사회건설’ 프로젝트에 관한 소고.” <경제와 사회> 26(1). [“The crisis of ‘society’ and the explosion of ‘the social’: social construction projects in South Korea and China.” Economy and Society 26(1)].

Translations (into Korean)

2016 “Twenty theses on politics and subjectivity” (Bruno Bosteels, Zinbun vol. 47, 2015). [“정치와 주체성에 관한 스무 가지 테제.” <문화과학> 87호].

2014 (co-translation). The Foucault Effect: Studies in Govenmentality (Colin Gordon et al., University of Chicago Press, 1991). [<푸코 효과: 통치성에 관한 연구>, 난장].

2009 Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire (Wendy Brown, Princeton University Press, 2005). [<관용: 다문화제국의 새로운 통치전략>, 갈무리].

2004 Remarks on Marx: Interviews with Michel Foucault (Michel Foucault and Duccio Trombadori, Semiotext(e), 1991). [<푸코의 맑스>, 갈무리].

‘Developmentality’ in South Korea
Financialization and populist movements